Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 pagini |
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Charles Daniel Dance. long whips is heard - these have handles of deer- feet generally , and the thongs are about five or six yards long . While you listen , the voices of the chief Llaneros , joined occasionally in chorus by their ...
Charles Daniel Dance. long whips is heard - these have handles of deer- feet generally , and the thongs are about five or six yards long . While you listen , the voices of the chief Llaneros , joined occasionally in chorus by their ...
Pagina 25
... feet , tore his hair out , and took up a large ballast - stone , and raising it with both hands above his head , declared that if Hills did not get out he would dash the corial to pieces . Below , for the tide was low , sat the American ...
... feet , tore his hair out , and took up a large ballast - stone , and raising it with both hands above his head , declared that if Hills did not get out he would dash the corial to pieces . Below , for the tide was low , sat the American ...
Pagina 26
... feet : while the Gran Lago de Guara- piche to the west of the Caruto , as large as the area of the Island of Barbadoes , drains westward as well as receiving on its western shore the river Aragua , which is fed by its tributaries the ...
... feet : while the Gran Lago de Guara- piche to the west of the Caruto , as large as the area of the Island of Barbadoes , drains westward as well as receiving on its western shore the river Aragua , which is fed by its tributaries the ...
Pagina 29
... blind . It recovered in about a week with the loss of an eye . The snake , which was a bushmaster , was shot . It measured about eight feet . The number of birds in this district is incred- ible . Here are powes , bush - turkeys ,
... blind . It recovered in about a week with the loss of an eye . The snake , which was a bushmaster , was shot . It measured about eight feet . The number of birds in this district is incred- ible . Here are powes , bush - turkeys ,
Pagina 32
... feet of an eagle , somewhat later , in a settlement up the Guarapiche . They were every bit as large as my hands , and the claws thicker than my fingers . CHAPTER IV . MY HOUSE AT CARUTO . I OBTAINED 32 Recollections of Four Years in ...
... feet of an eagle , somewhat later , in a settlement up the Guarapiche . They were every bit as large as my hands , and the claws thicker than my fingers . CHAPTER IV . MY HOUSE AT CARUTO . I OBTAINED 32 Recollections of Four Years in ...
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